HAVE YOU READ AN ANSWER ON QUORA or a comment on Facebook or a whole damn article on someone’s blog where they assure you that “I have done the research” but somehow manage to get all the pertinent facts wrong? That is because there are different definitions for terms on the internet than everywhere else.
Here, for example, are the working definitions for normal research and in-depth research on the world wide web:
Research
I did a careful search of key words in every article on the first page of Google that had a title or meta description that looked like it agreed with my opinion.
In-depth research
I did a careful search of key words in every article on the first two pages of Google that had a title or meta description that looked like it agreed with my opinion.
FEATURED IMAGE: For the image at the top of this page, I chose Hunter Biden’s laptop as it seems to hold an almost vice-like grip on the imagination of millions of people who may not really have any imagination short of what certain types of media suggest to them. Cartoon above by Michael de Adder for The Washington Post.
I frigging love it.
The spread of misinformation (non-factual “information” disseminated unintentionally) is everywhere! Despite seeing it over and over and over, I am still dumbstruck when I read people answer questions on social media with grace and authority when it’s obvious from their answers that they are borderline clueless about the topic on which they speak “expertly.”
Being a BIG Elvis fan, I can report that there has been a rather large influx of experts on the man and his career. Their research? They watched Baz Luhrman’s Elvis movie. Twice!
Dunning-Kruger lives on (and one and on ...) ...